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Share your views on what helps you to live a heathier life

26 September 2025

Hywel Dda University Health Board will be continuing to explore what is important for people to live healthier lives as it moves into the second phase of engagement to refresh its long-term strategy. 

At a meeting yesterday (Thursday 25 September), the Health Board agreed to a nine-week engagement with communities about what shapes good health beyond visits to see healthcare professionals and how this contributes to the long-term strategy of the health board.  

This engagement builds on a question we asked during the summer months - What is important for you to live a healthy life? We received close to 800 responses to the question, and we would now like to understand more about how we can move our strategy forward and enable us all to live healthier lives. 

Engagement activities will put 11 questions to the public, through existing community groups and social media, to find out what matters most to people when it comes to staying well and accessing healthcare. 

This will include how your local area and support networks help, how digital tools could make care and access to it easier, how we can better balance hospital care with support closer to home and what matters most when improving healthcare buildings and spaces. 

Chief Executive Professor Philip Kloer said: “We launched our A Healthier Mid and West Wales strategy in 2018, and the overall direction remains firm. This includes becoming more of a wellness service, building a social model for health that looks at all aspects of what contributes to good health, supporting health through technology, investing in our buildings, and bringing together acute hospital services.  

“However, the environment has changed significantly, not least due to the pandemic and also the advancement of digital capabilities. Our Board has agreed today to gather more insight from our communities to help us refresh our strategy in light of this. 

“We need a strategy to face up to the stark predictions for our population in the future, from a growing gap in life expectancy between the most and least deprived communities, people living with more and multiple chronic conditions, and shortages of healthcare staff.  

“We know we need to invest more in prevention and digital services to enable more people to take ownership of their care and therefore it is vital that we understand what this means for people and so that our communities can help shape this.” 

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People are invited to share their views by 28 November 2025.